From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:01:17 +0300
> The unix_nr_socks value is limited with the 2 * get_max_files() value, > as seen from the unix_create1(). However, the check and the actual > increment are separated with the GFP_KERNEL allocation, so this limit > can be exceeded under a memory pressure - task may go to sleep freeing > the pages and some other task will be allowed to allocate a new sock > and so on and so forth. > > So make the increment before the check (similar thing is done in the > sock_kmalloc) and go to kmalloc after this. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, good catch Pavel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
